go through hoops

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go/jump through hoops

to do a lot of difficult things before you are allowed to have or do something you want They really make you jump through hoops before they allow you to adopt a baby.

See also: hoop, through

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If we finish anywhere from fourth bottom to halfway at the end of this season, I think we will go through hoops here. CHINA CAN REAP RICH REWARDS FOR BLUES; FAR EAST MARKET HAS POTENTIAL ... by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) You have to go through hoops and wait days before you can get hold of the money, but not with payday loans. Pay Day Loans when the Times Get Rough Get Tough with a Payday Loan by Ellene Bauer / Finance and Investment community Companies often force customers to go through hoops to register their complaints, hoping, presumably, that they'll be put off and drop the matter. RECORD money: thereaders'champion by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)			go postal go public go round in circles go round the houses go scot-free go separate ways go sky-high go so far as to go so far as to say go sour go south go spare go stag go straight go the distance go the extra mile go the limit go the way of all flesh go the way of the dodo go the whole hog go the whole nine yards go through go through channels go through fire and water go through hell go through hoops go through like a dose of salts go through the changes go through the mill go through the motions go through the roof go through with go to any length go to bat against go to bat for go to bed go to bed with go to bed with the chickens go to bed with the sun Go to blazes! go to earth go to extremes go to great lengths go to great lengths to go to great pains go to ground go to head go to hell go to hell in a bucket go to hell in a handbasket Go to hell!			go the vole go the vole go the vole go the vole go the way of all flesh go the way of the dodo go the way of the horse and buggy go the whole hog go the whole nine yards go the whole way go the whole way go the whole way go through go through go through go through go through go through channels go through fire go through fire go through fire go through fire go through fire go through fire and water go through fire and water go through fire and water go through fire and water go through fire and water go through fire and water go through hell go through hoops go through like a dose of salts go through like a dose of the Salts go through like a knife through butter go through phases go through someone like a dose of the salts go through something with a fine-tooth comb go through the books go through the changes go through the cracks go through the floor go through the hoops go through the hoops go through the mill go through the mill go through the mill go through the mill go through the mill go through the motions go through the motions go through the motions go through the motions go through the motions go through the roof go through the roof go through the roof go through the roof go through the roof go through with go through with go through with a fine-tooth comb

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